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The Traveller's Tree
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style. After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In the Second World War he joined the...
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Emancipation In the West Indies a Six Months' Tour In Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, In the Year 1837
by Jas a And J Horace Kimball Thome
West Indies Books & Ephemera
The Traveller's Tree
by Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style. After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In the Second World War he joined the...
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of The British Colonies in the West Indies.
by EDWARDS, Bryan
London: B. Crosby; Mundell & Son, Edinburgh; J. Mundell, Glasgow,, 1798. First combined edition of this classic work from the "pre-eminent statesman-intellectual of the British West Indies" (Davis, p. 188). Edwards (1743-1800) was a politician, plantation-owner, and historian whose financial interests in Jamaica placed him in opposition to the abolitionist movement. He witnessed the slave insurrection in St Domingue (Haiti) first-hand and his account remains "the most significant text" for this period...
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$570.06
The Traveller's Tree - SIGNED and with the rare wrap-around band
by Fermor, Patrick Leigh
John Murray, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine. A first edition, first printing published by John Murray in 1950. A near fine book without inscriptions with some foxing to the page edges, seeping a little into the pages. In a very good+ clipped wrapper which has a nick to the head of the spine and some wear to the spine tips and corners. SIGNED by way of a bookplate to the front pastedown. One or two nicks here and there. Complete with the rare original wrap-around band declaring the book to be the...
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$1,583.50
![The History, Civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies: In Two Volumes. [2 Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/619/272/1256272619.0.b.jpg)
The History, Civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies: In Two Volumes. [2 Volume Set]
by Edwards, Bryan
London: John Stockdale, 1794. Contemporary tree calf, new calf spines. New free end-papers. 2 volume set. Pp. liv, 494; 520, [1]. 9 maps, 3 of which are folding, and 7 engraved plates. No half-titles. A little light foxing and offsetting, a few marginal tears, but a very good copy. A splendid set. A heavy set, additional postage may be required for tracked postage outside the UK. (bs63). 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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$1,710.18
Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l'Amerique, Contenant, l'Histoire Naturelle de ces Pays, l'Origine, les Moeurs, la Religion & le Gouvernement des Habitans anciens & modernes
by LABAT, (Jean-Baptiste)
Paris: Jean de Nully, 1742. hardcover. Les Guerres & les Evenemens singuliers qui y sont arrivez pendant le sejour que l'Auteur y a fait. Frontis., 7 folding maps, 34 folding plates, 60 plates. 8 vols. 12mo, rebound in modern green cloth with black leather labels, uncut; (19th century notations on last blank leaf of vol. I). Paris: Jean de Nully, 1742. Very Good.<br/> <br/> Author was a Dominican brother who emigrated to Martinique in 1693. He later became the head of the Dominican...
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$5,500.00
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
by Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Paperback. Acceptable.
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$2.13
Residence in Bermuda
by BERMUDA)
Bermuda: Trade Development Board, 1936. Limited. hardcover. near fine. 51 illustrations, 8 full page watercolors by Adolph Treidlerin, the black & white plates are photographic illustrations by David Knudsen, Walter Rutherford, Thurman Rotan and F.S. Lincoln. 94 pages, tall slim folio, blue and silver cloth. n.p.: (Bermuda Trade Development Board), 1936. Designed and produced by James Albert Wales and Lorraine Follett. Printed in the U.S.A. by Edward Stern & Company, Inc. Philadelphia....
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$500.00
![HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, 18TH OF AUGUST, 1831. [FROM THE MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT, PART XCIV.] CASE OF LESCENE [sic] AND ESCOFFERY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/342/302/1593302342.0.b.jpg)
HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, 18TH OF AUGUST, 1831. [FROM THE MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT, PART XCIV.] CASE OF LESCENE [sic] AND ESCOFFERY
by [Lescesne, Louis Celeste; John Escoffery]
[London: Printed for the Proprietors of the "Mirror of Parliament," 3, Abingdon Street, Westminster, 1831. 16pp. Disbound. Caption title, as issued. Generous margins, occasional minor foxing. Very Good. "Proceedings of a debate in the House of Commons led by Joseph Hume against the proposal for the British rather than the colonial government in Jamaica to pay financial compensation to Lecesne and Escoffery. Their case against deportation from Jamaica had been brought before the House of Commons in 1824...
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$600.00
THE BERMUDA ISLANDS. An account of their Scenery, Climate, Productions, Physiography, Natural History and Geology, with Sketches of their Discovery and Early History, and the changes in their Flora and Fauna due to Man
by [BERMUDA] VERRILL, Addison
New Haven, CT: Published by the author., 1902 [1903]. First Edition. Softcover. Front wrap and endpaper detached. Octavo (6-1/8" x 9-1/2") in original printed green wraps; x, 548 pages. Illustrated with 40 plates and over 250 cuts in the text. A detailed history of the island including detailed accounts of flora, fauna, and climate.
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$562.50
The history civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies. Third edition, with considerable additions
by Edwards, Bryan
London: John Stockdale, 1801. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxiv, xxiii, [1], 576; viii, 617, [1]; [4], xxxii, 477, [1], blank leaf, [6] ads; engraved frontis portrait and 21 maps and plates, all folding (that of St. Domingo as large as 26" x 38") plus a number of printed tables throughout; interesting, venerable set in original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelf-backs, printed paper labels on volumes 2 and 3, early mss. label on volume 1; the boards dirty, the spines chipped, with modest loss at tops...
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$2,875.00
![The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. [Vol. III. edited by Sir W. Young.] (Sketch of the life of the author by himself.)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/615/644/1588644615.0.b.jpg)
The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. [Vol. III. edited by Sir W. Young.] (Sketch of the life of the author by himself.)
by Bryan Edwards
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. [Vol. III. edited by Sir W. Young.] (Sketch of the life of the author by himself.).
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$33.23
History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896
by Lionel Mordant Fraser
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896.
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$198.15
The Lesser Antilles
by Davis, William Morris
New York: American Geographical Society of New York. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards show some shelf wear and soiling. Corners somewhat bumped, light fraying head and tail of spine ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. A bookplate on the front pastedown with William Beebe's name on it identifies this as coming from the library of the noted naturalist. A few notations in pencil on the front free end paper may or may not have been written by him. Numerous...
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$85.00
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The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. [Vol. III. edited by Sir W. Young.] (Sketch of the life of the author by himself.)
by Bryan Edwards
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. [Vol. III. edited by Sir W. Young.] (Sketch of the life of the author by himself.).
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$33.23
WEST INDIES HEALTH CARE AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
by Martin Md, Marcus L. & Audrey Snyder Phd Rn & Anna Walker Jones & Leslie U. Walker
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. Near Fine. 2015. Softcover. Includes printed letter from UVA about the book, pointing out this copy is one of the first 100 printed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 438 pages .
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$23.00
Puerto Rican Paradox
by Petrullo, Vincenzo
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth boards show some shelf wear, small corner bumps, erasure thinning upper front free end paper. ; A tight solid book. Foyle's of Charing Cross paper stamp lower front pastedown; 8.6 X 5.6 X 0.9 inches; 181 pages; "Chiefly concerned with what happens to a people when denied self-government." This is a field study of the peoples of Puerto Rico. .
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$19.50
Indiarum Occidentalium Tractus Littorales cum Insulis Caribicis. / Pascaert van Westindien ende Caribise Eylanden
by DE WIT, Frederick
Paris: Frederick de Wit, 1680. unbound. Map. Copper plate engraving with original hand color. Image measures 19" x 22 1/4". c.1680<br/> <br/> This rare and beautiful sea chart of the West Indies is an unrecorded edition by Frederick de Wit. The chart covers Central America, West Indies, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Unlike the first state of this map, this variation details the west coast of Central America and the southern coastline of New England. The Chesapeake Bay region is...
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$3,500.00
A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. II. The West Indies
by Lucas, C. P
London: Oxford. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Second Edition. Hardcover. Boards show some shelf wear, previous owner's bookplate facing title page, some offsetting on both free endpapers . ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. All maps (colour) and diagrams present, ; Maps; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 348 pages .
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$30.00
THE CONDUCT OF HIS GRACE THE D-KE OF AR- - LE FOR THE FOUR LAST YEARS REVIEW'D TOGETHER WITH HIS GRACE'S SPEECH APRIL 15TH, 1740. UPON THE STATE OF THE NATION
by [Spain]
London: Printed by Mr. Webb, near St. Paul's, 1740. 24,9-16,33-34,[3],34-56, page 39, [1 blank] pp. Page 15 misnumbered '51,' as issued. Bound in later dark plain wrappers. Very Good. ESTC records four variants, all determined by the craziness of the pagination. In all printings, the text is continuous. None of ESTC's records quite matches ours. The closest, ESTC T222817, tracks ours up to the last printed page, which ESTC notes as page '57' rather than our '39.' "Relates in part to Spanish...
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$275.00
West Indies
by FINLEY, Anthony
Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1824. unbound. Young & Delleker. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 8.5" x 11.25".<br/><br/> This lovely 1824 map by Anthony Finley features the West Indies and Caribbean Islands. Extends from southern Florida to northern South America and includes the Bahamas, the Leeward and Windward Islands. Cat Isle in the Bahamas is noted as 'the first land seen by Columbus, 1492'. The map is beautifully detailed and notes the...
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$250.00
South America with Improvements to 1823
by TANNER, H.S
Philadelphia: Tanner, H.S., 1825. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 35 3/8" x 21 1/8".<br/><br/> Beautifully detailed large scale map of South America and the West Indies. Includes a table of "Comparative Altitudes of the Mountains Towns &c. of South America". Published in "A New American Atlas". Original linen reinforcements to folds, overall toning and wear to edges. Chipping along edges with small and expertly...
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$750.00
Lexicografia Antillana; Diccionario de Voces usadas por los Aborgienes de las Antillas Mayores y de Algunas de las Menores y consideraciones acerca de su Significado y de su Formacion
by ZAYA Y ALFONSO, Alfredo
Havana: Molina, 1931. hardcover. 2 volumes. Small 4to, modern 3/4 blue calf, marbled boards. Habana: Molina, 1931. Very good.<br/> <br/> Presentation copy.<br/> <br/>
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$400.00
Halsey In The West Indies
by Fuller, Halsey Oakley
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Spine torn fully down back edge of spine, frayed top and bottom edges of spine, fore corners worn, water stain on lower left corner of front cover, some discoloration and spotting of red cloth covered boards ; Stated first printing, photographic end papers, hinges intact, B&W photos. Despite the rough exterior, the book is tight and solid. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages; The...
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$25.00
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
by FERMOR, Patrick Leigh
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First American edition from English sheets. Illustrated by A.Costa. Double-page map by H.W.Hawes. Octavo. 403pp. Stain at the bottom corner of the last 50 or so pages, modest foxing throughout, a sound good copy in a bright, very good dustwrapper with one inch tear on the front spine fold and some slight corresponding staining on rear panel. Account by a respected English traveller.
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$250.00
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
by Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Paperback. Good.
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$1.84
